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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 57946" data-attributes="member: 514">UAiSL - Unexplained Abbreviations in Subject Lines annoy me.Lately this has been happening more often than it used to, it seems to me.  For instance, the other day (maybe last week) I saw a topic that mentioned BoEMII being out.  I couldn't recall what BoEMII was, and read the thread.  But in the thread it wasn't named either, nor the Author, or anything other give-away detail.  It wasn't until I saw a mention on the main page that Book of Eldritch Magic II was out that it clicked.Now, I read this website almost daily, and have done so for a long time.  I own the Book of Eldritch Magic, and want a copy of the sequel when it gets printed.  The abbreviation just didn't mean anything to me.When there are abbreviations like that in topic lines the site starts to feel Cliquey.  If the reader doesn't know what the third IR is, if the reader doesn't know whether LotR refers to Lord of the Rings or the new Babylon 5 (potential) series Legends of the Rangers, or if the reader doesn't know what BoEMII is, it can make this site inaccessible to new readers, and sometimes drive them away.Please make an effort to put the full name in the title of a topic, rather than an abbreviation.(Note: the best way to explain an abbreviation in context is like so:   The Book of Eldritch Magic II (BoEMII) is now available from Monte's website).Thanks for reading <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Duncan</blockquote>

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